Is there a list of authors who don't want fanfic? by
Calista
on 2010-05-15 00:08:00 UTC
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I think it'd be a good idea to link a list from the wiki, if one could be found. I don't know there's an official PPC policy; but either way, there are probably people here who'd prefer not to go against authors' wishes whatever the official ruling happened to be.
I don't think... by
Tomato
on 2010-05-14 06:37:00 UTC
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...we usually PPC those fandoms at all. Since the PPCing, after all, is a fanfic in itself.
I know there weren't any Dragonriders of Pern missions until after Anne McCaffrey lifted her ban. And I seem to recall a Pern mission specifically mentioning that fact. (Anyone remember what mission that was? I read it when I first joined up.)
Very true... by
anamia
on 2010-05-14 05:52:00 UTC
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Sounds like something the Legal Department would have to cope with. I suspect they would find it worse to go against an author's wishes than to allow a Mary Sue to roam free, but it's a tough choice. -sighs-
--anamia
Hmm, but wouldn't your PPCing be a fanfic too? by
Calista
on 2010-05-14 05:45:00 UTC
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If you used that charge, you'd be admitting to knowingly writing a fic set in a world made by an author who doesn't like fan fiction. Sure, it's a PPC fic, and you're making fun of bad fanfiction; but the setting's still the author's.
my two pence by
doctorlit
on 2010-05-14 05:44:00 UTC
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I don't think we should bring that up, really. It feels like we would, by writing a mission into that same fandom, be committing that same offense, as it were.
As an odd sidenote, when I attended NAU, I stayed in the dormitory named after Diana Gabaldon...